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THE NEGRO DIGS UP HIS PAST
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So Buzzard decide it is time to take Rabbit home to his little ones. As he was carryin' Rabbit to his little ones he said:

Diddledum-diddledum-day-day
Young man, here he.

All come 'round de table. Dey meant to eat him. Had knives and everything, an' were jes' gonna cut him up when de father said:

Diddledum-diddledum-day-day
Young man, let's eat.

But jes' den ol' B'rer Rabbit jumped up from de table an' said:

Diddledum-diddledum-day-day
Young man, I'm gone.

Stepped on a pin
Hit bent
That's the way he went.